Personal information about local students and school district employees could have been compromised by hackers who recently accessed passwords on computers used by Lancaster County School District personnel.

District officials sent employees, students and their parents a letter Tuesday telling them that hackers have captured keystrokes from district computers that are linked to a statewide student and employee database.

Authorities are searching for two missing teenage girls who disappeared within weeks of each other.

Lancaster teenagers Melshia Mona Chambers, 15, and Katie Jean McHowell, 16, were both reported missing during the last few weeks, though the cases are unrelated.

Chambers was last seen April 11 by her mother Bridgette Chambers. According to a Lancaster Police Department press release, Melshia Chambers left her home at Lancaster’s Palmetto Place Apartments on Pardue Street after a fight with her mother at 5:30 p.m.

Personal information about local students and school district employees could have been compromised by hackers who recently accessed passwords on computers used by Lancaster County School District personnel.
District officials sent employees, students and their parents a letter Tuesday telling them that hackers have captured keystrokes from district computers that are linked to a statewide student and employee database.

The S.C. Department of Education has awarded Palmetto Awards to three Lancaster County high schools.
Now in its 10th year, the award recognizes state schools that attain high levels on their report card absolute performance and growth ratings and substantial progress in closing the achievement gap between groups of students.
Buford and Indian Land high schools each won Palmetto Gold awards for closing the achievement gap, while Andrew Jackson High School won a Palmetto Silver award for the same.

Wayne McBride sees his proposed project as a way to give back to the college that helped him so much.
McBride wants to build apartments near the University of South Carolina at Lancaster that would house college students. But first, the USCL alumnus needs a big favor from the city of Lancaster.
City Council voted 5-1 Tuesday in favor of first reading to rezone property on Brook Road from residential (R-15) to multi-family (MF). That land, about .85 acres, is the targeted spot for McBride’s project, which would feature 10 apartment units.

Two men were shot in the leg in separate incidents this week.
A Heath Springs man flagged down a deputy after being shot Tuesday morning.
While patrolling Fork Hill Road in Kershaw at 9:48 a.m., a Lancaster County sheriff’s deputy noticed a man waving his arms on the side of the road. The deputy stopped and spoke with the 27-year-old Heath Springs resident, according to an incident report.
The man said he had been shot in the leg and had walked to a building in the 3800 block of Fork Hill Road looking for help.